Fuck this guy
George Harrison hate thread
The whiney bitch beatle
GOOD moRNING SAAR
more like harridaughter (he's a girl)
in order of likeability:
ringo > paul >> george >>> lenin
He later on went through some of the greatest moments, and did more after the Beatles, than during it.
His best moment was on a Cheech and Chong song
George>Ringo>Paul>John
no, george was a whiny fuck
you got it upside down, dummy
he was stabbed multiple times by a schizophrenic home invader and spent his last years as a cancer ridden mental and physical wreck, if that makes you feel better O{
t. eric
He still lived 30 years after the Beatles ended, which means he did a lot, and went through great moments like the rise of home computer, video games, the rise of punk, pop, rap, Reagan, 9/11, fall of the USSR the dot com bubble etc...
Steve Hillage always the real king of the hippies anyway.
He did a cover of It's All Too Much
Why? He seemed alright
It's kinda funny how Beatles fans tend to follow the same arc.
You think you've reached the final level when you start saying shit like "George was the best" or "he was mistreated" etc. But the real final stage is realizing he was a bit whiney, and his solo work is not as great as people pretend it was.
Obviously I love the guy, but his greatest contribution to popular music is his lead guitar work for The Beatles. On songs that were primarily written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon. He was a bit pretentious and thought he was in the same tier of songwriter, when he simply wasn't.
Him telling other artists what they should do and constantly whinging about the current state of music as if he’s on the same level of McCartney/Lennon and we should listen to his gospel is what really irks me
his greatest contribution to popular music is his lead guitar work for The Beatles
Uh, no.
George was always very opinionated and stubborn. He was one of those guys who was unshakable once he made up his mind about something. He thought he knew what he liked and didn't like and could hold a grudge for decades (see Paul). He pretty much stopped keeping up with new music after 1970, except for whatever his friends were releasing.
And it's based.
Don't blame me I voted Ringo.
mccartney fans always come across as insecure when they talk about george
ive noticed the same thing on the steve hoffman forums
I thought that was John Lennon?
Weird, this board used to hate the Beatles and would bully you for posting them. You must be newfags, you probably wouldn't have liked it.
Can someone check how many times he’s posted variations of this?
i like his songs with the beatles
I really do think his solo work encapsulates what made The Beatles best and catchy. "What Is Life" sounds like something off Sgt. Pepper.
I've been here since 2009, brother.
The Beatles have always been a topic of interest. There has rarely been a time where there's not an active thread about them.
When are you going to realize he's just going to keep ignoring these posts and double down on his shit?
You've been here since '09, but you're replying to obvious bait?
im sorry to break the news but george harrison died in 2001
Yeah fuck him
Paper
Same
George was always my favorite Beatle
I thought he had the most chill attitude and while I like all the Beatles solo stuff George wrote the best, most listenable albums (though I do like John more and more recently)
Now that Youtube is so well populated with Beatles interviews and I've trained the algorithm to feed them to me I've learned a lot more about the band and really like all of them a bit less
George was very, very badly fucked over financially by John and Paul on the Apple deal and that has to be taken into account
Having said that he was the whiniest and angriest member of the band by far
George was also obsessed with writing the guitar parts to every Beatles song since he was the official guitarist and constantly whined about Paul (also a guitarist) telling him how to play the guitar parts on the songs Paul wrote
I'm sure most of George's resentment was over the theft of his money by his bandmates, but the constant whining about guitar parts and constant tantrums and threats to quit the band if he didn't get more respect are really offputting
The Beatles were hard men
gay lol
George Harrison[nb 1] (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001)[nb 2] was an English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Sometimes called "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian culture and helped broaden the scope of popular music through his incorporation of Indian instrumentation and Hindu-aligned spirituality in the Beatles' work.[4]
Although most of the band's songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, most Beatles albums from 1965 onwards contained at least two Harrison compositions, including "Taxman", "Within You Without You", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun". Harrison's earliest musical influences included George Formby and Django Reinhardt; subsequent influences were Carl Perkins, Chet Atkins and Chuck Berry. By 1965, he had begun to lead the Beatles into folk rock through his interest in Bob Dylan and the Byrds, and towards Indian classical music through his use of Indian instruments, such as the sitar, which he had become acquainted with on the set of the film Help!.[5] He played sitar on numerous Beatles songs, starting with "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)". Having initiated the band's embrace of Transcendental Meditation in 1967, he subsequently developed an association with the Hare Krishna movement. Harrison's first marriage to model Pattie Boyd in 1966 ended in divorce in 1977. In the following year he married Olivia Arias, with whom he had a son, Dhani.
After the Beatles disbanded, Harrison released the triple album All Things Must Pass, a critically acclaimed work that produced his most successful hit single, "My Sweet Lord", and introduced his signature sound as a solo artist, the slide guitar. He also organised the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh with Indian musician Ravi Shankar, a precursor to later benefit concerts such as Live Aid. In his role as a music and film producer, Harrison produced acts signed to the Beatles' Apple record label before founding Dark Horse Records in 1974. He co-founded HandMade Films in 1978, initially to produce the Monty Python troupe's comedy film The Life of Brian (1979).
Harrison released several best-selling singles and albums as a solo performer. In 1988, he co-founded the platinum-selling supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. A prolific recording artist, he was featured as a guest guitarist on tracks by Badfinger, Ronnie Wood, and Billy Preston, and collaborated on songs and music with Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, and Tom Petty. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 31 in their 2023 list of greatest guitarists of all time.[6] He is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee – as a member of the Beatles in 1988, and posthumously for his solo career in 2004.[7] A lifelong smoker, Harrison died of cancer in 2001 at the age of 58, two years after surviving a knife attack by an intruder at his home.
George Harrison was born at 12 Arnold Grove in Wavertree, Liverpool, on 25 February 1943.[8][nb 2] He was the youngest of four children of Harold Hargreaves (or Hargrove) Harrison (1909-1978) and Louise (née French,[13] 1911-1970). Harold was a bus conductor who had worked as a ship's steward on the White Star Line,[14] and Louise was a shop assistant of Irish Catholic descent.[9] He had one sister, Louise, and two brothers, Harold and Peter.
According to Boyd, Harrison's mother was particularly supportive: "All she wanted for her children is that they should be happy, and she recognised that nothing made George quite as happy as making music."[15] Louise was an enthusiastic music fan, and she was known among friends for her loud singing voice, which at times startled visitors by rattling the Harrisons' windows.[16] When Louise was pregnant with George, she often listened to the weekly broadcast Radio India. Harrison's biographer Joshua Greene wrote, "Every Sunday she tuned in to mystical sounds evoked by sitars and tablas, hoping that the exotic music would bring peace and calm to the baby in the womb."[17]
Harrison lived at 12 Arnold Grove until 1 January 1950.[18] A terraced house on a cul-de-sac, it had an outdoor toilet, and its only heat came from a single coal fire. In the autumn of 1949, the family was offered a council house and moved to 25 Upton Green, Speke.[19] In 1948, Harrison enrolled at Dovedale Primary School.[20] He passed the eleven-plus exam and attended Liverpool Institute High School for Boys from 1954 to 1959.[21][22] Though the institute did offer a music course, Harrison was disappointed with the absence of guitars, and felt that the school "moulded [students] into being frightened".[23]
he fell for the ironic shitposting
its just sad at this point
Harrison's earliest musical influences included George Formby, Cab Calloway, Django Reinhardt and Hoagy Carmichael;[24] by the 1950s, Carl Perkins and Lonnie Donegan were significant influences.[25] In early 1956, he had an epiphany: while riding his bicycle, he heard Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" playing from a nearby house, and the song piqued his interest in rock and roll.[26] He often sat at the back of the class drawing guitars in his schoolbooks, and later commented, "I was totally into guitars."[27] Harrison cited Slim Whitman as another early influence: "The first person I ever saw playing a guitar was Slim Whitman, either a photo of him in a magazine or live on television. Guitars were definitely coming in."[28]
When George Harrison was about 14, a friend of Harrison, Raymond Hughes, offered to sell a guitar. Harrison's mother then paid for the guitar, which cost £3.10s.– (equivalent to £110 in 2025[29]).[30][31] One of his father's friends taught Harrison how to play "Whispering", "Sweet Sue" and "Dinah". Inspired by Donegan's music, Harrison formed a skiffle group, the Rebels, with his brother Peter and a friend, Arthur Kelly.[32] On the bus to school, Harrison met Paul McCartney, who also attended the Liverpool Institute, and the pair bonded over their shared love of music.[33]
McCartney and his friend John Lennon were in a skiffle group called the Quarrymen. In March 1958, at McCartney's urging, Harrison auditioned for the Quarrymen at Rory Storm's Morgue Skiffle Club, playing Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith's "Guitar Boogie Shuffle", but Lennon felt that Harrison, having just turned 15, was too young to join the band.[34] McCartney arranged a second meeting, on the upper deck of a Liverpool bus, during which Harrison impressed Lennon by performing the lead guitar part for the instrumental "Raunchy".[35] He began socialising with the group, filling in on guitar as needed,[36] and then became accepted as a member.[37] Although his father wanted him to continue his education, Harrison left school at 16 and worked for several months as an apprentice electrician at Blacklers, a local department store.[38] During the group's first tour of Scotland, in 1960, Harrison used the pseudonym "Carl Harrison", in reference to Carl Perkins.[39]
In 1960, promoter Allan Williams arranged for the band, now calling themselves the Beatles, to play at the Indra and Kaiserkeller clubs in Hamburg, both owned by Bruno Koschmider.[40] Their first residency in Hamburg ended prematurely when Harrison was deported for being too young to work in nightclubs.[41] When Brian Epstein became their manager in December 1961, he polished up their image and later secured them a recording contract with EMI.[42] The group's first single, "Love Me Do", peaked at number 17 on the Record Retailer chart, and by the time their debut album, Please Please Me, was released in early 1963, Beatlemania had arrived.[43] Often serious and focused while on stage with the band, Harrison was known as "the quiet Beatle".[44][45] That moniker arose when the Beatles arrived in the United States in early 1964, and Harrison was ill with a case of Strep throat and a fever and was medically advised to limit speaking as much as possible until he performed on The Ed Sullivan Show as scheduled.